Giving In or Growing In Him?
We all have
had days filled with discouragement and disappointments. Perhaps more than we
care to recall. Often they can be used by the devil to defeat and destroy us.
Think about
discouragement. It comes from being dissatisfied with things in the past, a
distaste of the present or quite possibly a distrust of the future. When we
allow ourselves to become discouraged, we are surrendering our courage to what
we have allowed to overcome us.
Discouragement is a signal from God that the devil is trying to take
away the hope He has given us in Christ. When we feel discouraged we need to
take away the “d” and replace it with an “H” and call for “His-courage” to
enable us to be victorious.
We also need
to realize that our disappointments are, in fact, His-appointments! Nothing
enters our life by chance - only by and through Christ. Often when things do
not go as we intended them to go, we consider them to be one of life’s
disappointments. However, what we need to realize is that God Himself is
intervening in our life. He is attempting to get our attention. He wants us to
make an adjustment to what we are doing with our lives that is not in line with
the plans He has for us.
Not
everything that happens to us can be considered “good” - but everything will
eventually be “good” for us.
Prayer:
Help us, Heavenly Father, to believe that You love us too much to
abandon us, care for us too much to harm us and too gracious to keep what we
need from us. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Scripture For Today: And
we know that God causes everything to work together[a] for the good of those
who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28
